Abstract:
Context based learning serves the effective tool for developing ecological education
at teacher trainees. The article is devoted to the process of introduction of context education
(quasi-professional and pedagogical contexts) within the discipline “Community service”. 114
students of A. Baitursynov Kostanay regional university underwent the public defense of the
interactive social projects with eco-aspect in Kostanay. The methods of active participation
into the social life of Kostanay (patronage, team-teaching, self-assessment) resulted in the level
of social responsibility of teacher trainees, forming positive intrinsic motivation to ecological
aspect of teaching. The authors present the entry data on the levels of motivation to the use
of ecological education in teacher trainees’ future pedagogical activity, the content plan of
the modernised discipline “Community service”, final data on project assessment of teacher
trainees at the end of their theoretical and practical study.The gained results demonstrated
the improving the quality of the motivational sphere of teacher trainees (intrinsic positive) to implement the ecological aspect into their pedagogical activity based on context learning within the given course.
